Making Mountains out of Molehills

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give his inauguration invocation strikes chords of "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" in this journalist's heart.

While some may think that Obama is a turncoat, and a modern-day Benedict Arnold, what he does after the inauguration, as in during the next four years, is more important than who's been invited to give the kick-off speech. Warren may be uber- conservative, but some homosexuals liken anyone who opposes their agenda to the new Public Enemy who must be stripped of all means of support and sent to live in a little grass hut.

It would be different had he chosen Osama bin Laden, a rank and file member of the PLO or a skinhead for the slot, but Warren is hardly frothing at the mouth and appears to be nothing of the sort. He is merely someone who has a different opinion from some of Obama's supporters, and the president-elect has said that he chose him to bring divergent sides together.

After all, his cabinet is composed of those from different creeds and ethnicities, and the reverend could just be another piece in the set. All he needs now is an openly gay person to have a matching set.